PoP UP Feedback Screen

[raj00]

Hi Friends

I have a question and if you can help me I would appreciate.

* I need one feedback screen. Which I can popup whenever i want and kill after some time, or completion upon some activity.

* User cannot do anything while it is up. The calling screen get disabled when this feedback screen is up

* feedback screen is dismissed by sending some command, not by user.

* feedback screen should show some animation and/or graphic in addition to feedback text.

* this feedback screen should remain on top of main screen


If some one can help me how can I do above tasks, I would be appreciate.

I am using Visual basic 6.0

Thanks
Raj

 

[apatterno]

>> User cannot do anything while it is up. The calling screen get disabled when this feedback screen is up

Make a modal dialog.

>> feedback screen is dismissed by sending some command, not by user.

Maybe DestroyWindow?

>> this feedback screen should remain on top of main screen

By "screen", I am going to assume you meant "window". In which case, a modal dialog is always above its owner.

>> feedback screen should show some animation and/or graphic in addition to feedback text.

could use a bit more detail?


And by the way, I'm wondering why you'd want to interrupt the user's work by popping up a dialog that cannot be closed by the user. Your app will probably get Ctrl+Alt+Deleted more often.


[sub]I REALLY hope that helps.[/sub]
Will

 

[bcravens]

In most current Window OS installs the user will always be able to do other tasks outside of your program. You can prevent them from accessing features of your program only.

I also suggest a modal dialog. As another option for dismissing it you can create a timer in the dialog class. The timer function would check a variable in your main application that would signal when to dismiss the dialog. If the variable is set then the timer function would dismiss using the EndDialog funtion that is a member of the CDialog class.

Hope this helps you.